SuSE9 Security Update : pam_mount (YOU Patch Number 12332)

This update fixes the temp-flle handling in the passwdehd script that allowed a symlink attack. CVE-2008-5138 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : qpopper (YOU Patch Number 10045)

Qpopper was handling user files while running as root. Qpopper could also be tricked into overwriting system files. CVE-2005-1151 and CVE-2005-1152 have been assigned to these issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : resmgr (YOU Patch Number 9434)

This update of resmgr improves the stability of determining terminal names. Without this fix it is possible for users to fake terminals, and therefore login types, in the context of the resmgr. This is just a minor issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description o...

SuSE9 Security Update : vim and gvim (YOU Patch Number 11722)

This update of Vim addresses a format-string bug in 'helptags'. This bug can be exploited to execute code with the privileges of the user running Vim. CVE-2007-2953 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : PHP4 (YOU Patch Number 11666)

This update fixes multiple bugs in PHP : - Predictable generaton of an initialization vector IV in the mcrypt extension - Additional cookie attributes could be injected via a session ID. - Specially crafted files could cause integer overflows in gd and leverage them to at least crash gd based...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12032)

libxml2 contained a DoS condition in xmlCurrentChar's UTF-8 processing. CVE-2007-6284 has been assigned to this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : ethereal (YOU Patch Number 12424)

Version upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.7 to fix various vulnerabilities : - crash while loading a Tektronix .rf5 file. CVE-2009-1269 - crash in Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector. CVE-2009-1268 - LDAP dissector could crash on Windows. CVE-2009-1267 - PROFINET format string bug...

SuSE9 Security Update : Python (YOU Patch Number 12316)

Integer overflows in the python imageop module and in the expandtabs method potentially allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4864, CVE-2008-5031 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : Ghostscript (YOU Patch Number 12375)

Integer overflows and missing upper bounds checks in Ghostscript's ICC library potentially allowed attackers to crash Ghostscript or even cause execution of arbitrary code via specially crafted PS or PDF files. CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

SuSE9 Security Update : the webdav apache module (YOU Patch Number 9363)

A vulnerability in the WebDAV module has been fixed. A remote attacker could crash a server process, leading to a Denial of Service scenario. Only installations configured for WebDAV access were affected. See http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=31183. CVE-2004-0809 has been assigned ...

SuSE9 Security Update : wget (YOU Patch Number 11090)

This update fixes a security bug in wget, where evil servers could send terminal escape codes to the user calling wget. This would only affect interactive sessions. CVE-2004-1488 Additionally a previous '.file' fix was found to be buggy and replaced. This bug could lead to '.directories' not bein...

SuSE9 Security Update : Apache 2 (YOU Patch Number 12000)

Apache2 contains a copy of the pcre library. Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code...

SuSE9 Security Update : snort (YOU Patch Number 11055)

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the httpinspect preprocessor. CVE-2006-2769 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : yast2-backup (YOU Patch Number 12279)

This updated of yast2-backup fixes a sellcode injection vulnerability and improves handling of symlinks for the backup process. CVE-2008-4636 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : mailman (YOU Patch Number 12224)

This update of mailman fixes a cross-site scripting bug CVE-2008-0564 and a mistake in translation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid41233;...

SuSE9 Security Update : XFree86 (YOU Patch Number 12170)

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities reported by iDefense : - RENDER Extension heap buffer overflow. CVE-2008-2360 - RENDER Extension crash. CVE-2008-2361 - RENDER Extension memory corruption . CVE-2008-2362 - MIT-SHM arbitrary memory read. CVE-2008-1379 - RECORD and Security extensions...

SuSE9 Security Update : findutils-locate (YOU Patch Number 11653)

The cronjob that deletes old core files can be tricked to delete arbitrary files if DELETEOLDCORE is set to yes in /etc/sysconfig/cron. By default, the variable is set to no. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : PostgreSQL (YOU Patch Number 12383)

Remote authenticated users could crash the postgresql server by requesting a conversion with an inappropriate encoding. CVE-2009-0922 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; i...

SuSE9 Security Update : libexif (YOU Patch Number 11555)

A denial of service problem crash was fixed in the EXIF Loader of libexif, which could be used to crash the browser or image viewer when it interprets the EXIF tags in prepared JPEG files. CVE-2007-2645 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE9 Security Update : nagios plugins (YOU Patch Number 11953)

fix possible buffer overflow during HTTP Location header parsing in checkhttp CVE-2007-5198 fix possible buffer overflow during snmpget parsing in checksnmp. CVE-2007-5623 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...